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.” The reaction to my comments was a mix of defensiveness and hostility. In the latter camp were ministers from Rabin’s left-wing coalition partners, Meretz, who seemed especially angry when I quoted from Camp David. The Prime Minister motioned them for calm. “Ehud had a responsibility to talk about secur
f in a fierce firefight with the Syrians, and lost eleven men. We were now just three hours from the cease-fire. We did advance nearer to the Beirut-Damascus road. An hour before noon, our dedicated anti-tank unit destroyed 20 of Assad’s top-tier tanks, Soviet-made T-72s. Under different circumstances, tho
equired for peace. That was an approach with, like Yitzhak 305 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011776 / BARAK / 20 before me, provoked more left-wing parties like Meretz to suggest that if I really wanted peace, I’d be ready to give away more, and more quickly. My position wasn’t helped by the way I had come over in
Bibi’s idea to reopen efforts to get peace with Syria didn’t last either. Although I’d learn of this only a few years later, he’d approved a visit to Damascus by the American Jewish businessman Ronald Lauder to meet President Assad. The visit made it clear to Bibi what successive Israeli leaders had learned
." The reaction to my comments was a mix of defensiveness and hostility. In the latter camp were ministers from Rabin's left-wing coalition partners, Meretz, who seemed especially angry when I quoted from Camp David. The Prime Minister motioned them for calm. "Ehud had a responsibility to talk about secur
lf in a fierce firefight with the Syrians, and lost eleven men. We were now just three hours from the cease-fire. We did advance nearer to the Beirut-Damascus road. An hour before noon, our dedicated anti-tank unit destroyed 20 of Assad's top-tier tanks, Soviet-made T-72s. Under different circumstances, tho
required for peace. That was an approach with, like Yitzhak 305 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028153 / BARAK / 20 before me, provoked more left-wing parties like Meretz to suggest that if I really wanted peace, I'd be ready to give away more, and more quickly. My position wasn't helped by the way I had come over in t
Bibi's idea to reopen efforts to get peace with Syria didn't last either. Although I'd learn of this only a few years later, he'd approved a visit to Damascus by the American Jewish businessman Ronald Lauder to meet President Assad. The visit made it clear to Bibi what successive Israeli leaders had learned
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tunisia
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Hosni Mubarak
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Hillary Clinton
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Saddam Hussein
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Fatah
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Jerusalem
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West Bank
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Michael Cohen
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSONMediterranean
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Ehud Barak
PERSONthe West Bank
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